Mind the Time1.2.2No Restart

Keep track of how much time you spend on the web, and where you spend it. Ticker widget shows (1) time spent at the current site and (2) total time spent on the web today. Summary page sums up data for the past 70 days, 10 weeks, and 6 months.

About this Add-on

The ticker shows (1) time spent at the current site and (2) total time spent on the web today.

Time is shown as hours and minutes (H:MM / H:MM).

The ticker appears in the add-on bar by default, but you can move it. (Right-click on the add-on bar, select "Customize...", and then drag the ticker to another toolbar.)

The ticker text is black when time is being logged, and turns light gray when time is not being logged.

Click the ticker to open the summary page or change the timing mode:

1. Default mode (no dot): timing is automatically paused after about a minute of inactivity. Timing automatically starts again when activity resumes (when the mouse pointer moves inside the browser window, a key is pressed, or the page is scrolled).

2. Green dot mode: the timer keeps timing despite periods of inactivity. This makes it easy to keep the timer on while watching videos.

3. Gray dot mode: the timer is off and no time or websites are logged.

No time or websites are logged for private browsing windows.

The Summary Page

The summary page reports how much time you have spent, and where you have spent it, for today and the past 70 days. This includes weekly summaries of the past 10 weeks and monthly summaries of the past 6 months.

A new day begins at 4am (night owl feature).

Set preferences in the usual place: add-ons manager >> Mind the Time >> preferences.

All data is stored locally on your computer. The "Delete All Data" button under preferences deletes all data. When data is more than a week old it is automatically deleted.

There is an option to only log total time for each day and not the websites and how much time is spent on each of them.

If you leave the summary page open in a tab (or app tab), when you return to it the data is automatically updated. You can also choose to manually update the data under preferences (a "Refresh" button is shown at the top of the summary page). Keeping the summary page open and updating it manually lets you easily see a "before" and "after" picture for a given browsing session.

Reminder Messages

Receive periodic reminder messages (after every X minutes) to help keep you aware of how much time you have spent on the web. Turn these on and set the frequency under preferences.

White List

Under preferences you can enter a list of sites to prevent them from being logged, and any time spent on them from being counted. This lets you exclude work-related sites, for example. The ticker text will be "grayed-out" when visiting these sites.

Contributions

If you use and like this add-on, a small contribution or a favorable review would be greatly appreciated. (Transparency: from 1/04/2012 to 3/25/2014, the total contributed was $244 from 38 contributors out of about 5,600 total users (as of 3/25/2014), an average of about 5 cents per user.)

Credits

This add-on was largely inspired by, and began with some code from the excellent LeechBlock add-on by James Anderson. Paul Morris reworked parts of the LeechBlock code for use in Mind the Time (primarily the parts related to tracking time spent at a given domain). Many thanks to James Anderson for licensing his code to be re-used like this.

Version Information

Version 1.2.2
Released February 19, 2014
32.4 kB
Works with
Firefox 25.0 and later

Version 1.2.2 (February 19, 2014)

- Fixed a bug introduced in v.1.2.0 where the local time zone was not being taken into account when switching to a new day. This primarily affected users outside of North and South America. This fixes issues where the ticker would reset to zero at the wrong time of day and where days were duplicated on the summary page. (Many thanks to a user from Taiwan for a very helpful bug report on this.)

- Upgraded to Add-on SDK 1.15 and built with the cfx command-line tool (now that the Add-on Builder has been deprecated). Since the SDK modules are now part of Firefox itself this add-on is now only 32.4k (down from 220.8k in the previous version, or a little under 15% of its former size).

Privacy Policy

All user data is stored locally and none of it is shared over the web. Starting with version 1.0 data for the past 70 days and summaries of the past 10 weeks and 6 months are stored. Older data is automatically deleted. All data that is stored locally can be deleted by the user at any time by clicking a button on the summary page.